The pro-fascist tone in parts of Waugh in Abyssinia offended readers and critics, and prevented its publication in America.

Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

Their bread and butter is reporting local events and local people and in a small community they aren't out to offend readers or cause major upset through distortion or misrepresentation.

For all its liberties, "The Accidental Pope" is unlikely to offend Catholic readers.

The CHRC's ruling said of the article that, "the writing is polemical, colourful and emphatic, and was obviously calculated to excite discussion and even offend certain readers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike."

I shall offend readers by saying that it was a good speech.

The American publisher requested their version be a very close shot of the side of the breast, so the body part in question wouldn't be readily identifiable, and therefore would not offend readers or passersby in the bookstore.

Not only would such exposés offend liberal readers who are not black or homosexual; many blacks and homosexuals are customers of liberal newspapers, and no business wants to offend a customer.

Investigative journalism is costly and many newspapers do not want to offend readers.

A word of caution: Certain language may offend sensitive readers, but we are leaving the letter intact to increase the chance that someone might recognize the writer's syntax.